TY - JOUR
T1 - Localized aortic dissection
T2 - Unusual features by transesophageal echocardiography
AU - Darbar, Dawood
AU - Zehr, Kenton
AU - Breen, Jerome F.
AU - Click, Roger
PY - 2000
Y1 - 2000
N2 - Transesophageal echocardiography relies on the presence of an undulating intimal flap for the diagnosis of aortic dissection. Furthermore, to distinguish true dissection from echo artifacts, the flap has to be identified in more than one view, and it must have a motion independent of the aortic wall. We describe the transesophageal echocardiography appearance of a localized aortic dissection with atypical features for an intimal flap. Awareness of this unusual echocardiographic appearance of an intimal flap will avoid misdiagnosis of the potentially serious acute aortic dissection.
AB - Transesophageal echocardiography relies on the presence of an undulating intimal flap for the diagnosis of aortic dissection. Furthermore, to distinguish true dissection from echo artifacts, the flap has to be identified in more than one view, and it must have a motion independent of the aortic wall. We describe the transesophageal echocardiography appearance of a localized aortic dissection with atypical features for an intimal flap. Awareness of this unusual echocardiographic appearance of an intimal flap will avoid misdiagnosis of the potentially serious acute aortic dissection.
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U2 - 10.1067/mje.2000.108467
DO - 10.1067/mje.2000.108467
M3 - Article
C2 - 11119284
AN - SCOPUS:0034520861
SN - 0894-7317
VL - 13
SP - 1130
EP - 1134
JO - Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography
JF - Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography
IS - 12
ER -